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The Union one
Super dope, they came out of nowhere. Honestly, like we didn't get much of a heads up on this shoot. We saw it first
Well, I saw before the commercials so they had a commercial with it was at the Rose Bowl
Which that's a place where a lot of vintage shopping goes on and have a bunch of people with booth set up
And that's where people like Sean Witherspoon and other people do their vintage shopping
They're as real as it gets
We got a G Union from Mike store openings and all of it
Like I've never seen this shit, you know, there's no way it's real
Straight up
Buggin
pretty much the gist of it was
They had a shoe that is mocked after 200 G sneakers meshed together. Nobody has seen it before and
Yeah, they were stumping people, I guess anyways, so that was the beginning of this shoe
We got hints of it before not many people thought they were real
Then we saw the commercial then after that then we saw a bunch of promo for people going crazy and you know when?
Jordan Brand wants to push a shoe. They're gonna make sure that they push the shoe. So we saw a non-stop
There was super hype around the black pair
And then they found out most people found out that the blue pair was gonna be the limited pair
So then that was the pair that was super hype from the gig off that I was super dope
And then so to get to actually show you how to do a raffle in LA. So Union is based out of LA
So you had to get a raffle if you got called for a raffle you then got to?
Enter the event and so the person who got the raffle for me, shut up. My babies got the lock
She won the cakes
She didn't know that you had to go to a big event you had to wait in line for hours to get the shoe
you got like a time slot and
So if you're a sneaker head which I would have I would have loved it
It seemed like they really really blew a bag for this event and they went all out for the whole experience
Making sure that people kind of got the gist of the background of the shoes
And then they had a bunch of apparel as well. So I thought that was super dope
I didn't copy any of the apparel because I wasn't there if you were in line for the event
Let us know how long did it take from the beginning to the end?
Did you stay what was the experience like so into the shoe?
Yes. Yeah, so as you see quality 8-1, you know super super solid my first takeaway
Obviously is the Frankenstein where they have a bread one upper and a storm blue
Lower, I guess lower half. So yeah around the collar you have something similar to a bread one
Which is the most iconic one in my opinion. I'm not sure what you would say
Number one hands down for one. Call away. Oh
And the mash-up of a storm blue, which is an OG colorway
But most people wouldn't associate that with the og color winds, especially nowadays
They retro I'm not exactly sure when these joints retro most people were able to come if they really wanted them
Yeah, I didn't cop these I just, you know during that time
there was a bunch of stuff that dropped and he's just happened to be one of those that I I
Let slip through the cracks, but this right here the craftsmanship super crazy
You have a like a yellow border around?
The like every cut of the leather is just is amazing. You can see how thick it is
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And the mid panels got the tumbu
and one thing I thought was super dope that they did was similar to
Like a royal one or a bread one from oh one you have the suede
Swoosh, which they haven't featured that and alone
So I thought that was super dope. I like the back it kind of has that og vibe
Mahalo, leather kind of crossed off and it had that just wool look on the back of the sneaker. That's really really clean
yeah, and then obviously, like I said, it has similar to the off-white elements, but
Compared to these two shoes mixing this shoe together the concept everything is really dope the way they did it
I'm actually really happy with it. Like I was saying before the shoe laces that's dope. You talked a little bit about the laces
Yeah, so you have like the ombre effect where the white connects into the black and so the black
Actually, once you lace it up like you unlacing you can see will show you what it looks like
but once your unless Lee you can see there's like a
short ombre effect where it goes from kind of like a
like an off-white to the black and then also you have
Two other pairs, which you have yellow pair and you have a pair. That's the opposite which you got black to white
And I'm not exactly sure. I haven't seen any other lace options for the black pair
It might just be this pair that has other lace options
But I know a lot of people like the yellow and then they also have with the hang tag
Just like the normal
Jordan, hang tag, but it has you mean here. I thought that was SuperDuper dope and then they also have the
Union La tag here on the on the collar
So so overall, how do you guys feel about this shoe the process of Guinea?
Were you able to get it? Are you willing to pay that top dollar to get this shoe?
I'm looking for a black pair right now
I don't know if I'm willing to pay top dollar maybe do some trades or something all the way I can get that by the
End of the year, but what's one of you like more how you feel about everything? I don't know
Just I got a question for y'all. I need y'all to answer stuff down below and
This is I mean again
it's a pretty dope collab and definitely this might be
One of the hottest shoes of the year. Am I falling to top three for sure?
That's a better one in your opinion this year. I know people are gonna say the UNC one
And there's one other one I was thinking about for what it was
Well, I think these are I mean I think they're top three for sure based on people's opinion
But I don't know. I think this is definitely up there
I just sit back and think about all the ones that came out because there's like a million pairs these days. Yeah
And then you also have ones that are coming out here pretty soon. You got the Art Basel one
So we still have some ones that are in contention for
one of the year you got the patent leather black joint and then
Cut away where the black is replaced by a green yeah
The hype and the dollar body's gonna die anytime soon on the one in general
And I felt like as long as there's a shoe that can be rocked
Why hey, this is gonna live forever right at the first one and it's still around 30
Like it's gonna when is it gonna stop?
I don't think it ever will no and then they're gonna find more ways to make it I got
Hyper-strike type of odd where there's gonna ones are gonna become
limited to the point where
You're just not gonna be able to get your hands on the ones that you want
No, the ones would have nice quality leather and a story to it. You're just not gonna be able to get your hands. All right
Yeah, this is a shoe games going a little crazy right now. Everything's about the Jordan one
What is your other favorite retro?
cuz right now everybody just talked about one me personally used to Sikhs but uh
The one is starting to creep its way up there to the top for sure
I never used to be I'm on top three but now is slowly making one up there with all these dope colorways, right?
Aren't you guys thanks again for watching
If you were able to copies, which pair did you cop was pretty like the most please let us know
But that being said, it's our time to go. I'll see you in the next video
I'll know when that is, but it will be soon